Hello. I have
a few questions about BANNERS that I can't seem to find the answer to in the
documentation:
1) What is the
difference and intended usage of the BOTTOM_BANNER vs. the DEFAULT_BOTTOM_BANNER
templates? I would have thought that DEFAULT_BOTTOM_BANNER was a site-wide
default, with BOTTOM_BANNER being list specific, but when I look in a given
list's MAILTPL file, I see both. In what sort of circumstances should one
use one over the other?
2) How does the
<list>.MAILTPL file get populated when a new list is created? Where
are the true site-wide defaults kept from which these are copied?
(SITE.MAILTPL? default.MAILTPL? How these work in terms of which
overrides which?)
3) What triggers the
creation of the <list>.MAILTPL file at all? Is one always created
unconditionally at list creation time, or only if some kind of template
modifications have taken place? (On my system I have some lists that have
a MAILTPL file and some that don't, and some of the ones that do are ones I know
have not had their templates specifically modified.)
4) Does the "#"
character have any special significance in a MAILTPL file? As a comment
delimeter, for example? I have a MAILTPL file that looks like
this:
.hh
on
########################################################################
##To
unsubscribe from the &LISTNAME list, click the following link:
##.BB
&LITEFE = 0
##
&*TICKET_URL(&LISTNAME_ENCODED,SIGNOFF);
##.ELSE
##&WA_URL;?SUBED1=&LISTNAME_ENCODED&A=1
##.EB
.hh
off
Not
surprisingly, it causes errors on messages about the ".hh" directive (which is
invalid), but the "#" characters don't seem to show up either. Maybe
that's because of the directive error, but those prefix "##" look like someone
thought it was a commend delimiter, so I just want to double-check before I fix
it.
Thanks for
any help.
-- John W. Manly
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Systems and Networking
Group,
Amherst College